Textbook suggestions raise Core questions

1:02 AM,
Jun. 18, 2014

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Lottie Beebe, who also is superintendent of schools in St. Martin Parish, wants to know if her school system is going to be chastised for not using textbooks recommended by Superintendent of Education John White.

Beebe said 500 teachers in St. Martin Parish reviewed the numerous possibilities and selected books that are not on the Department of Education's Tier 1 and Tier 2 lists. The tiers, one through three, are rated according to their compliance with Common Core standards.